I enjoyed Automata for its philosophical themes and gameplay, but Replicant was a far more character focused, emotionally intimate story with multilayered protagonists and antagonists, and it hit me like a truck as well. Although I enjoy philosophy, I am a sucker for stories like Replicant. What was your favorite moment if you don't mind me asking?
oooo it's so hard to choose! i think any of the tender moments between kaine and emil make me really happy. the campfire scene between them is so sweet and i'm so glad they have that familial relationship after each of them having such hard lives.
Simone Beauvoir's final text log scene (the opera singer) really hurt and made me regret having to destroy her. Driven to madness in the pursuit of love...
Didn't cry all that much the first time but always felt the impact. Watching someone else release those emotions made me cry beyond what I thought. Thanks for the video.
thank you so much for watching! i still think about this game often and wanted to document the emotional journey somewhere. i'm glad it could offer something to you too ❤
maybe it's just the greek in me (you know, the whole 'tragedy' thing), but i find these kinds of stories far more uplifting and constructive than most stories it might have something to do with an obsession with "balance" or whatever, but i think one can't truly appreciate emotional highs without emotional lows, so it all blurs together into "beautiful" for me personally; and really, as bleak as Yoko Taro can get sometimes, ultimately the man clings to hope and it shows. brilliantly all that said, i started using my dog's name for game characters after he suddenly passed years back, and boy oh boy was that maybe not the best decision with this one, because haha being prompted to type in the name of who i wanted to bring back at the end of this game........let me tell you that was a moment and a half. lmao
I cried too much every time I saw him sacrifice himself and more with the extra scene of the moment where it is seen that he is the last to die just before leaving, he defeat that wild boar.
I cried back in Gestalt (daddy NieR), i cried in replicant. But from this remake, the extra little scene of Louise/Mermaid on route c, where the postman finally receives her letter, wrecks me everytime. It’s so simple yet so raw bittersweet. Bless Yoko Taro. And also F Yoko Taro
Honest to god, when i saw Fyra's and Emil's death i was desperate, i cried so much in these instances in specific that i genuinely got a headache This game is SO special to me and i gladens me that you felt the same way i felt while playing Also, Emil hating his body and saying that he is a monster hit me SO hard my god i cryied rivers
I finished all of this game two days ago. I'm watching this and crying all again with you. This game is soul crushing and I don't think I've ever cried so hard for sidequests before
I'm not one to cry, but Kaine's monologue on ending E, where she says she swore to be by your side and promises to get you back no matter what it takes - while you get flashbacks of the whole game - thats a special feeling that got me. Fooling you into thinking that self-sacrifice is what you need to do, only to realize you're hurting the one you're sacrificing yourself for even more than if you were to let her go. There's so many stories of people dying for the ones they love - but how many of them would actually agree with their loved ones giving up their life or them?
This is such a special video. After having just experienced the game for the first time and really seeing how much it affected you and how connected you were to it makes me feel like I wasn’t alone in my emotional overload. Also- the “closure” at the end made me feel the same. I needed it, even though I was sobbing at saying goodbye. ❤️ Thank you for sharing.
I know it has been a year since this was uploaded, but I am thankful your reactions are here for everyone to see. I've loved this series ever since the first release of Nier over a decade ago. Seeing people go through the game is always a great time even if it is a sad experience. 😭 The music is what always gets me! Emil's theme is like a cheat code to make anyone emotional haha.
i’m so happy this video is still reaching and resonating with people a year later upload, and nearly 2 years after the playthrough actually took place 🥹 part of me wishes i had cropped out my overlay the way i’ve done with newer videos but it has a special place in my heart as a love letter to one of my favourite games ever ❤️🩹 thank you for watching!
I remembered playing Nier on the PS3. Specifically my friend brought his PS3 from Japan so I didn’t know papa Nier was a character till I talked to friends at school. The Drag-On Dragoon series and Nier are phenomenal. Cried as a kid and now cry as a 19 year old.
Nier is one of those games where the happiest side quests end up being the ones you forget to finish, because then nobody (or their pets) end up dead...
Watched this without sound, so I don't really know if you know about this, but there's a diary entry that you can find while playing as Kaine where Yonah wakes up crying on Nier's birthday and assumes it was just a sad dream.
@@LilijaTheLancer I know! you spend all that time...and learn everything you did was for nothing! you have to sadly fight and kill Devola and Popola...which could have been avoided if they had just been programmed by their creators to communicate better! and then you find out...they were right all along! in the end, both sides were in a sense heroes/anti-heroes in their own way! but the lack of communication leads to betrayal and many deaths!
ive cried in games before, maybe once or twice but nier replicant takes the cake. it makes you attached these background characters we think have no importance, the ferry man with the red bag, the old lady in the lighthouse, the postman, hell even the wolf! i cried for every death but the devola and popola scene broke me the hardest and having to redo it like 4 times was painful each time
I'm glad you had the same reaction by the ending of A. Like that sort of sad depression where you just start getting mad at things XD like "fuck you stop throwing enemies at me I wanna be sad" "STOP BEING A HALLWAY"
I played automata and had built up a tolerance for the "everything goes bad and sadness is all there is" part they both have so it wasn't as bad. Not saying I didn't cry, just saying it was the feeling of "oh its this part of the game, I see YokoTaro."
beepy made my heart hurt so much but my outward reactions weren't...idk dramatic???? enough to justify putting in the video. beepy definitely hurt my feelings
Jrpgs are definitely my most favorite genre. Even though I started with Mario and Luigi bowsers inside story as my first when I was a kid, as I grew up I discovered xenoblade from both chuggaconroy and smash bros, and from there it truly started. It's because of xenoblade that I discovered more jrpgs like nier. I got to say I'm glad I found these games.
Nier is also the story I always wondered if anyone had made that has basically a only bad ending back when I was young. I got alot more than I expected when I played through both nier games, absolutely heart snatching.
Honestly I really wish they'd given the option to have the dad protag instead of brother I loved the remake, but the original hit me harder because of that, the theme of a dad giving everything to save his daughter just somehow felt more impactful to me
@@xvmvk8061 i was definitely saddened by those moments but i limited this video to very obvious moments of crying to make it easier to find moments to include LOL
In years of following the franchise I have never known of people not understanding the sadness in it, but guess I found the few rare ones in the comments here. Just a FYI on why these people are like this, it all comes down to genetics. They have a weaker connection between these parts in the brain: Amygdala and vmPFC and OFC. It is actually quite sad as these are the same people who lack empathy, and are basically unable to love, depending on what part of the spectrum they are at. In the other hand people that do get affected by stories like this means the opposite, a stronger connection and more healthy and mature emotional intelligence.
if i did a full playthrough reaction video, my reactions to the aerie being absolutely decimated and the fight beforehand probably would have made the cut. i limited this video to basically just crying (lmao) in order to narrow the scope and make finding moments to include a lot easier
Because Automata is based on directly hitting you in the feels meanwhile Replicant needs you to understand the whole lore between Automata and Drakengard to be immersed in the tragedy.
@@OmanAMNOTGOODWITHCOMPUTER i mean, I do understand the lore beetween automata and replicant, but I never played Drakengard, and the lore video don't really help. But I do understand that Automata happens in the distant future of Replicant, and Replicant happens in the distant future of one of the Drakengard 1 endings, where the dragons falls through a interdimensional portal, or something like that, bringing disease to "our" world. I can play Drakengard 3 on my ps3, but would like to play the first one still.
@@LilijaTheLancer hmm strange. Very strange. Although sometimes philosophy like in automata can be more difficult to grasp emotionally for some folk over personal struggles like replicants. So I guess it's not entirely unreasonable
@@trevorveillette8415 character relationships will always hit me really hard. i find the themes in automata are so deeply troubling that the tears won’t even come LMAO
@@LilijaTheLancer oh yeah they are very disturbing. Oh and about the character relationships, if you read the side materials like "short story long and "long story short" among other things like "YoRHa boys" and "NieR orchestral concert & script reading 20201" The game had no space for character backstories but the side materials have so much relationship expansion and stories. 2 stories in particular I would say are ESSENTIAL to understanding 2B and 9S and their relationship is "memory thorn" and "memory cage". Oh and the orchestral concert 20201 has a script reading done by the voice actors that I would also say is very necessary for understanding the characters. Very very good lore surrounding those 2 characters.
If you meant the giant one in ending E, in the original novel version of the final ending it's clarified that giant flower is just a giant Lunar Tear made by mixing plant and machine by the quantum computer as a last act of reviving Nier for Kaine out of respect, and also when asked back around the time of D3 Taro clarified there is no connection between the giant Lunar tear and the world ending flower. It's a sort of shared motif/nod, but not the same thing.
I really liked atomata and in some aspects better than replicant but replicant had the more emotional hit for me. But in atomata it's more philosophically hinted and has good level of depth. One thing that took alway from my emotional attachment to the story tho was ending E. At first I thought after several failed attempts I would get assistance from A2 or her pod since after the A2/9S story began we had a A2 learning to hack but no the whole purpose is to make you give up and ask for help from other players. I did not ask for help, instead I tried again and again and watched a dude on yt how to beat it and aster 3 weeks I finally did it but by that time I started to forget about the story and the emotional impact and just focused on beating it. Ending E didn't hit me hard and I know I didn't play it like it was supposed to but I don't like to be forced to accept defeat, but this was the best challenge I've completed in a long time.
Having the help of friends and even people you dont know = defeat? They are your power and you are there's. If you think having friends come help you is a weakness. please find more faith in the power of friendship
@@LilijaTheLancer I would have wanted to be able to grief over all the characters but I bursted into laughter in automata when 2b died and 9s was having a mental breakdown (if my english is weird its because its not my native language please excuse me if you see some errors)
![The Song She Couldn't Sing [Fleeting Words - NieR Replicant v1.22]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/92gg9wfdAsg/mqdefault.jpg)
This game: the tragedy of miscommunication
The next game: the tragedy of misinformation
I enjoyed Automata for its philosophical themes and gameplay, but Replicant was a far more character focused, emotionally intimate story with multilayered protagonists and antagonists, and it hit me like a truck as well. Although I enjoy philosophy, I am a sucker for stories like Replicant. What was your favorite moment if you don't mind me asking?
oooo it's so hard to choose! i think any of the tender moments between kaine and emil make me really happy. the campfire scene between them is so sweet and i'm so glad they have that familial relationship after each of them having such hard lives.
Simone Beauvoir's final text log scene (the opera singer) really hurt and made me regret having to destroy her. Driven to madness in the pursuit of love...
you think? Automata only offers basic existentialism and thats kind of it. Replicant is a lot better written than automata.
@@critical_6164 you didnt understand the game then cause thats not even a fraction of it
@@evanmiller4502 then explain it to me
Didn't cry all that much the first time but always felt the impact. Watching someone else release those emotions made me cry beyond what I thought. Thanks for the video.
thank you so much for watching! i still think about this game often and wanted to document the emotional journey somewhere. i'm glad it could offer something to you too ❤
maybe it's just the greek in me (you know, the whole 'tragedy' thing), but i find these kinds of stories far more uplifting and constructive than most stories
it might have something to do with an obsession with "balance" or whatever, but i think one can't truly appreciate emotional highs without emotional lows, so it all blurs together into "beautiful" for me personally; and really, as bleak as Yoko Taro can get sometimes, ultimately the man clings to hope and it shows. brilliantly
all that said, i started using my dog's name for game characters after he suddenly passed years back, and boy oh boy was that maybe not the best decision with this one, because haha being prompted to type in the name of who i wanted to bring back at the end of this game........let me tell you that was a moment and a half. lmao
this game is truly so so beautiful, i get your point completely
Its been years and i think no story, no game, no experience will ever surpass this for me.
That was life changing and soul crushing
The ending B and Louise when Kainé delivers the letter she wrote to the postman, always makes me tear up
The King of Facade is the realest bro in any game, change my mind
I cried too much every time I saw him sacrifice himself and more with the extra scene of the moment where it is seen that he is the last to die just before leaving, he defeat that wild boar.
Sorry but that is Broach from The Witcher
Perfect, I get to relive my pain in a nice condensed format. Thank you, I croed with you every step of the way 😂
I cried back in Gestalt (daddy NieR), i cried in replicant.
But from this remake, the extra little scene of Louise/Mermaid on route c, where the postman finally receives her letter, wrecks me everytime. It’s so simple yet so raw bittersweet.
Bless Yoko Taro. And also F Yoko Taro
Honest to god, when i saw Fyra's and Emil's death i was desperate, i cried so much in these instances in specific that i genuinely got a headache
This game is SO special to me and i gladens me that you felt the same way i felt while playing
Also, Emil hating his body and saying that he is a monster hit me SO hard my god i cryied rivers
That Kaine's "No" at 10:47 broke me.
Only this game can make me cry over a goddamn talking BOOK
I finished all of this game two days ago. I'm watching this and crying all again with you. This game is soul crushing and I don't think I've ever cried so hard for sidequests before
I'm not one to cry, but Kaine's monologue on ending E, where she says she swore to be by your side and promises to get you back no matter what it takes - while you get flashbacks of the whole game - thats a special feeling that got me. Fooling you into thinking that self-sacrifice is what you need to do, only to realize you're hurting the one you're sacrificing yourself for even more than if you were to let her go.
There's so many stories of people dying for the ones they love - but how many of them would actually agree with their loved ones giving up their life or them?
Every time nier made me cry - "29 minutes" yeah that feels right
This is such a special video. After having just experienced the game for the first time and really seeing how much it affected you and how connected you were to it makes me feel like I wasn’t alone in my emotional overload. Also- the “closure” at the end made me feel the same. I needed it, even though I was sobbing at saying goodbye. ❤️ Thank you for sharing.
I know it has been a year since this was uploaded, but I am thankful your reactions are here for everyone to see. I've loved this series ever since the first release of Nier over a decade ago. Seeing people go through the game is always a great time even if it is a sad experience. 😭 The music is what always gets me! Emil's theme is like a cheat code to make anyone emotional haha.
i’m so happy this video is still reaching and resonating with people a year later upload, and nearly 2 years after the playthrough actually took place 🥹
part of me wishes i had cropped out my overlay the way i’ve done with newer videos but it has a special place in my heart as a love letter to one of my favourite games ever ❤️🩹 thank you for watching!
Yoko Taro “Most games try and make you feel happy”
Audience “So This game will make us feel happy?”
Yoko Taro “…………”
This girl represents me perfectly, I don't know how many times I cried playing Nier Replicant
I remembered playing Nier on the PS3. Specifically my friend brought his PS3 from Japan so I didn’t know papa Nier was a character till I talked to friends at school. The Drag-On Dragoon series and Nier are phenomenal. Cried as a kid and now cry as a 19 year old.
Nier is one of those games where the happiest side quests end up being the ones you forget to finish, because then nobody (or their pets) end up dead...
oh my god this is painfully true
Watched this without sound, so I don't really know if you know about this, but there's a diary entry that you can find while playing as Kaine where Yonah wakes up crying on Nier's birthday and assumes it was just a sad dream.
Just finished playing, what a work of art, the lady in the lighthouse was the only one I told a lie, she died so happy 🥺
omg 😭
Surprised devola and Popola were not in here at all I know I definitely cried when I just was fighting her at the end
I was mostly just angry and shocked
I am surprised i didnt see Beepy here
@@archi4226 i was super sad and dead inside LOL so it didn’t make for much of a reaction and didn’t make the cut
@@LilijaTheLancer I know! you spend all that time...and learn everything you did was for nothing!
you have to sadly fight and kill Devola and Popola...which could have been avoided if they had just been programmed by their creators to communicate better!
and then you find out...they were right all along!
in the end, both sides were in a sense heroes/anti-heroes in their own way! but the lack of communication leads to betrayal and many deaths!
ive cried in games before, maybe once or twice but nier replicant takes the cake. it makes you attached these background characters we think have no importance, the ferry man with the red bag, the old lady in the lighthouse, the postman, hell even the wolf! i cried for every death but the devola and popola scene broke me the hardest and having to redo it like 4 times was painful each time
I'm glad you had the same reaction by the ending of A. Like that sort of sad depression where you just start getting mad at things XD like "fuck you stop throwing enemies at me I wanna be sad" "STOP BEING A HALLWAY"
The Wolves part where he says "Thank you for being my friend" breaks me every single time. Such an amazing game.
crying for everything xd
pretty much!
RIP Ursula
6:33 I actually laughed while playing that part, just cause the Papa NieR meme
everytime nier made you cry more like the whole game 😂😭 same goes for me , this game is so brutal
It's 5 am I couldn't sleep so I saw your vid on my feed, now I'm sad and still can't sleep 😢😅
I played automata and had built up a tolerance for the "everything goes bad and sadness is all there is" part they both have so it wasn't as bad. Not saying I didn't cry, just saying it was the feeling of "oh its this part of the game, I see YokoTaro."
Yeah when you do it every time it becomes too predictable. I didn't feel much when playing Automata either, because I've seen Nier story.
...and Beepy didn't even get a mention!
beepy made my heart hurt so much but my outward reactions weren't...idk dramatic???? enough to justify putting in the video. beepy definitely hurt my feelings
Thank you for playing!
Painfully beautiful! ❤
im ready to cry again
The music. tears all day long
My endings after A and B were D -> E -> C; which ended up breaking me when Nier kissed Kainé
oh my god i can imagine the emotional devastation of playing in that order 😭
Having beaten NieR Automata first and then Replicant, I’m expected to be depressed while playing it, YOKO TARO
"You have my sword and you have my bow, and my axe" Asia* "I can't carry all that" 🤣
Jrpgs are definitely my most favorite genre. Even though I started with Mario and Luigi bowsers inside story as my first when I was a kid, as I grew up I discovered xenoblade from both chuggaconroy and smash bros, and from there it truly started. It's because of xenoblade that I discovered more jrpgs like nier. I got to say I'm glad I found these games.
Nier is also the story I always wondered if anyone had made that has basically a only bad ending back when I was young. I got alot more than I expected when I played through both nier games, absolutely heart snatching.
I had forgotten how completely broken I was playing this game back in 2012...
oh my poor heart...
S tier game
They have new games. Call Nier: Reincarnation and The Voice of Card . From Yokotaro.
Honestly I really wish they'd given the option to have the dad protag instead of brother
I loved the remake, but the original hit me harder because of that, the theme of a dad giving everything to save his daughter just somehow felt more impactful to me
Funny how you did not put beepy (p-33) and kalil in this video that was the part that destroyed me
@@xvmvk8061 i was definitely saddened by those moments but i limited this video to very obvious moments of crying to make it easier to find moments to include LOL
So there's a hidden scene I'm not sure if you got where if you can beat louise fast enough there's a slightly different ending involving the letter.
In years of following the franchise I have never known of people not understanding the sadness in it, but guess I found the few rare ones in the comments here. Just a FYI on why these people are like this, it all comes down to genetics. They have a weaker connection between these parts in the brain: Amygdala and vmPFC and OFC. It is actually quite sad as these are the same people who lack empathy, and are basically unable to love, depending on what part of the spectrum they are at. In the other hand people that do get affected by stories like this means the opposite, a stronger connection and more healthy and mature emotional intelligence.
Omg same
i'm surprised the fight before the sacrifice wasn't on here?
if i did a full playthrough reaction video, my reactions to the aerie being absolutely decimated and the fight beforehand probably would have made the cut. i limited this video to basically just crying (lmao) in order to narrow the scope and make finding moments to include a lot easier
I felt kind emotional at Ending E of NieR: Automata, but Replicant didn't even hit me
Sorry to hear that.
@@kaltsssit I already know you have no fucking clue what automata or replicant was about and you just felt what twitter or youtube told you to lul
@@shikitohno47 They arent that complicated lmao
Because Automata is based on directly hitting you in the feels meanwhile Replicant needs you to understand the whole lore between Automata and Drakengard to be immersed in the tragedy.
@@OmanAMNOTGOODWITHCOMPUTER i mean, I do understand the lore beetween automata and replicant, but I never played Drakengard, and the lore video don't really help. But I do understand that Automata happens in the distant future of Replicant, and Replicant happens in the distant future of one of the Drakengard 1 endings, where the dragons falls through a interdimensional portal, or something like that, bringing disease to "our" world.
I can play Drakengard 3 on my ps3, but would like to play the first one still.
Are you gonna play automata? If this game hurt you then automata is gonna destroy you 😅
i’ve played automata 🫠 this one was actually worse for me!
@@LilijaTheLancer hmm strange. Very strange.
Although sometimes philosophy like in automata can be more difficult to grasp emotionally for some folk over personal struggles like replicants.
So I guess it's not entirely unreasonable
@@trevorveillette8415 character relationships will always hit me really hard. i find the themes in automata are so deeply troubling that the tears won’t even come LMAO
@@LilijaTheLancer oh yeah they are very disturbing. Oh and about the character relationships, if you read the side materials like "short story long and "long story short" among other things like "YoRHa boys" and "NieR orchestral concert & script reading 20201"
The game had no space for character backstories but the side materials have so much relationship expansion and stories.
2 stories in particular I would say are ESSENTIAL to understanding 2B and 9S and their relationship is "memory thorn" and "memory cage".
Oh and the orchestral concert 20201 has a script reading done by the voice actors that I would also say is very necessary for understanding the characters.
Very very good lore surrounding those 2 characters.
Automata destroyed me.
AWWNNN
That flower is a really bad thing. World ending bad
If you meant the giant one in ending E, in the original novel version of the final ending it's clarified that giant flower is just a giant Lunar Tear made by mixing plant and machine by the quantum computer as a last act of reviving Nier for Kaine out of respect, and also when asked back around the time of D3 Taro clarified there is no connection between the giant Lunar tear and the world ending flower. It's a sort of shared motif/nod, but not the same thing.
I really liked atomata and in some aspects better than replicant but replicant had the more emotional hit for me. But in atomata it's more philosophically hinted and has good level of depth. One thing that took alway from my emotional attachment to the story tho was ending E. At first I thought after several failed attempts I would get assistance from A2 or her pod since after the A2/9S story began we had a A2 learning to hack but no the whole purpose is to make you give up and ask for help from other players. I did not ask for help, instead I tried again and again and watched a dude on yt how to beat it and aster 3 weeks I finally did it but by that time I started to forget about the story and the emotional impact and just focused on beating it. Ending E didn't hit me hard and I know I didn't play it like it was supposed to but I don't like to be forced to accept defeat, but this was the best challenge I've completed in a long time.
I’m amazed that you put some restrictions and effort for the playthrough, but why tho 🤨?
Having the help of friends and even people you dont know = defeat? They are your power and you are there's. If you think having friends come help you is a weakness. please find more faith in the power of friendship
Dude, you beat that shit without help? Respect.
I felt nothing while playing these moments, just nostalgic the whole time by the music
Now do Drakengard.
AKA Despair, Depression and Death: The Game
HOW CAN A PERSON CRY SO MUCH I DIDNT EVEN CRY AT THE END OF TITANFALL BUT HOW CAN YOU CRY SO MUCH
are you okay?
@@LilijaTheLancer I would have wanted to be able to grief over all the characters but I bursted into laughter in automata when 2b died and 9s was having a mental breakdown (if my english is weird its because its not my native language please excuse me if you see some errors)
@@yigitsendilli6485 everyone responds to media differently, that’s perfectly okay
@@LilijaTheLancerthanks
Do people really cry during video games like this? Idk just doesn't seem that sad to me! I get streamers crying for effect but npc dialog? Lol
i mean…yes? this is a whole video of that happening? i’m not an actor who can cry on command lmao
The game is sad dude, that's it lol. Theres no conspiracy